Excerpt from Hydraulic Tables, to Aid the Calculation of Water and Mill Power, Water Supply, and Drainage of Towns, and Improvement of Navigable Rivers: Together With the Properties and Strength of Materials, Useful Numbers, and Logarithms; Also, Tide Tables for 1852, 1853, 1854; Tidal Constants; With Various Phenomena of Tidal Rivers IN the computation of hydraulic questions daily required by an Engineer, much labour is saved by the systematic use of Tables the means of detecting errors are far greater than in isolated calculations and the results, when tabulated, are more useful than any mere formula: the one shows the object attained - the other gives the means only. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.